J. R. R. Tolkien bibliography

This is a list of all the published works of the English writer and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien. Tolkien's works were published before and after his death.

Books written by J. R. R. Tolkien on a bookshelf
A selection of J. R. R. Tolkien's work

Fiction

edit

Middle-earth

edit
  1. 1937 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
  2. 1954–1955 The Lord of the Rings

Poetry books

edit
  1. 1962 The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book
  2. 1967 The Road Goes Ever On, with Donald Swann, a song-cycle

Posthumous

edit
  1. The Book of Lost Tales 1 (1983)
  2. The Book of Lost Tales 2 (1984)
  3. The Lays of Beleriand (1985)
  4. The Shaping of Middle-earth (1986)
  5. The Lost Road and Other Writings (1987)
  6. The Return of the Shadow (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 1) (1988)
  7. The Treason of Isengard (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 2) (1989)
  8. The War of the Ring (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 3) (1990)
  9. Sauron Defeated (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 4, including The Notion Club Papers) (1992)
  10. Morgoth's Ring (The Later Silmarillion vol. 1) (1993)
  11. The War of the Jewels (The Later Silmarillion vol. 2) (1994)
  12. The Peoples of Middle-earth (1996)

Short works

edit

Poetry

edit

Unless stated otherwise, the years indicate the date of composition.

Academic and other works

edit

Posthumous publications

edit

Constructed languages

edit

A large volume of Tolkien's writings on his constructed languages, primarily the Elvish languages such as Quenya and Sindarin, has been published and annotated by scholars in the journals Vinyar Tengwar and Parma Eldalamberon.

Audio recordings

edit
  • 1967 Poems and Songs of Middle-earth, Caedmon TC 1231
  • 1975 J. R. R. Tolkien Reads and Sings His The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Caedmon TC 1477, TC 1478 (based on an August 1952 recording by George Sayer)
  • 1979 Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien, George Allen & Unwin, text by Christopher Tolkien, ISBN 0047410035. 2nd edition 1992.
  • 1995 J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator (text by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull)
  • 2011 The Art of The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (text by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull)
  • 2015 The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (text by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull)

See also

edit

Notes

edit
  1. ^ Republished in various editions, lately in the 1999 edition of Tree and Leaf in the UK only.
  2. ^ a b c d Also in Shippey, Tom. The Road to Middle-Earth, Grafton, 1992. pp 303–309
  3. ^ This essay was not finished and has never been published in its entirety, although parts of it were published in Unfinished Tales, and the remaining parts were published in the periodical Vinyar Tengwar, issue number 42 in 2001.

References

edit